Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would be a feat of public agitation that he likens to the Anti-Corn Law League of the 1830s and 1840s , which successfully pressed home the case for free trade ( and caused a split in the Tory Party in the process ) . |
| 2 | Together with the Socialist Party ( 142 seats ) and a new Christian Democratic party called the Mouvement Républicain Populaire ( 152 seats ) , the PCF formed a bloc which effectively ruled out the possibility of any constitution that de Gaulle could approve . |
| 3 | The last few years have been stressful for teacher education , for it has not only experienced the constant need for self- defence of higher education generally , but also special pressures from the Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education ( CATE ) , set up in 1984 , and the new funding arrangements for in-service education started in 1986 ( which effectively wiped out the source of student funding for most full-time award-bearing courses ) . |
| 4 | The creation of nominal and fictitious votes was by far the greatest abuse to disfigure Scottish politics in the eighteenth century , but that was a form of political corruption which long survived even the Reform Act of 1832 , and the only abuse which was truly confined to the period under consideration was that which attempted to capitalise upon the opportunities for manipulating the voters , through a judicious application of patronage , which the small number of voters appeared to invite . |
| 5 | Perhaps the differences between the men were what caused their plans to eventually fall apart , but I think it was a combination of Cassius 's selfishness , Brutus 's nobility , and extremely bad luck which finally finished off the conspirators . |
| 6 | THE book which finally blew apart the myth of Charles and Diana 's marriage was born in a humble cafe in the London suburb of Ruislip . |
| 7 | He had a casual way of saying ‘ my mother ’ which somehow emphasised invincibly the fact that his mother was the Queen . |
| 8 | Instead Nixon claimed to be " Vietnamizing " the war by a phased withdrawal , which gradually handed over the conduct of the war to the South Vietnamese themselves . |
| 9 | The colour of the sky permeates the mountains and is reflected by the lakes which also took on the mountain colours . |
| 10 | It was the Press , too , which really drove home the scandal of the three executives from the Matrix Churchill company who were threatened with jail for supplying armaments to Saddam Hussein . |
| 11 | Police harassment , which often sparked off the riots , was noted as an almost inevitable feature of life in these crime-ridden ghetto areas . |
| 12 | A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper , which immediately took on the status of security blanket . |
| 13 | The Doctor looked up and put on his spectacles which immediately slid down the perspiration on his nose . |
| 14 | Losses would be twice as high if energy producers imposed a carbon tax and kept the revenues for themselves , or if a tax were levied by a world agency which then shared out the revenue in proportion to each region 's population . |
| 15 | With the final umbrella of the Charter , which theoretically laid down the principles of the paper and what it stood for , the last bricks were put into the edifice . |